Liberals to unveil plans for UN peacekeeping force
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Self defense is the only legitimate role for the military. By that I mean protecting our citizens on our soil.
5) Colombia. Different from the other missions on this list not only because it's in South America, but also because the peacekeepers here are unarmed observers. It's also the safest but smallest mission on this list. The purpose is to monitor the recent peace agreement between the Colombian government and FARC guerrillas.
There: completely created by the narco terrorist US war on drugs of which fartillary and bill and the bushes are all at the top of the heep of:
"we can't legalize drugs there is too much money in it!!!" - Shillary Clinton
an "in your face!!!" courtesy of POPPY BUSH!
There: completely created by the narco terrorist US war on drugs of which fartillary and bill and the bushes are all at the top of the heep of:
"we can't legalize drugs there is too much money in it!!!" - Shillary Clinton
an "in your face!!!" courtesy of POPPY BUSH!
You obviously did not get the memo about Iran doing better after the 1970 coup that tool out the CIA sponsored Government. Since then the US has been in a covert war with them. Libya was a hell-hole before the US freed them. Look at the hell they had to endure under their brutal dictator.
Facts about Libya under Gaddafi that you probably did not know about ! - CNN iReport
Here are some Facts you probably do not know about Libya under Muammar Gaddafi:
• There was no electricity bills in Libya; electricity is free … for all its citizens.
• There was no interest on loans, banks in Libya are state-owned and loans given to all its citizens at 0% interest by law.
• If a Libyan is unable to find employment after graduation, the state would pay the average salary of the profession as if he or she is employed until employment is found.
• Should Libyans want to take up a farming career, they receive farm land, a house, equipment, seed and livestock to kick start their farms –this was all for free.
• Gaddafi carried out the world’s largest irrigation project, known as the Great Man-Made River project, to make water readily available throughout the desert country.
• A home was considered a human right in Libya. (In Qaddafi’s Green Book it states: “The house is a basic need of both the individual and the family, therefore it should not be owned by others.”)
• All newlyweds in Libya would receive 60,000 Dinar (US$ 50,000 ) by the government to buy their first apartment so to help start a family.
• A portion of Libyan oil sales is or was credited directly to the bank accounts of all Libyan citizens.
• A mother who gives birth to a child would receive US $5,000.
• When a Libyan buys a car, the government would subsidizes 50% of the price.
• The price of petrol in Libya was $0.14 per liter.
• For $ 0.15, a Libyan local could purchase 40 loaves of bread.
• Education and medical treatments was all free in Libya. Libya can boast one of the finest health care systems in the Arab and African World. All people have access to doctors, hospitals, clinics and medicines, completely free of charge.
• If Libyans cannot find the education or medical facilities they need in Libya, the government would fund them to go abroad for it – not only free but they get US $2,300/month accommodation and car allowance.
• 25% of Libyans have a university degree. Before Gaddafi only 25% of Libyans were literate. Today the figure is 87%.
• Libya had no external debt and its reserves amount to $150 billion – though much of this is now frozen globally.
Gaddafi wrote, “They want to do to Libya what they did to Iraq and what they are itching to do to Iran. They want to take back the oil, which was nationalized by these country’s revolutions. They want to re-establish military bases that were shut down by the revolutions and to install client regimes that will subordinate the country’s wealth and labor to imperialist corporate interests. All else is lies and deception.”
Finally, the gold bullion held by the Libyan Central Bank (March 2011) was among the 25 largest reserves in the world, as reported by the Financial Times, citing the International Monetary Fund. This provided Libya a critical lifeline after billions of Libya’s assets were seized by the United States and the 27 member states of the European Union.
The opinions expressed in this piece are solely those of the iReporter. CNN cannot confirm all of the claims in this iReport and has been unable to reach the original submitter. Share your thoughts on this story in the comments below or upload your view to iReport.
- zdan, CNN iReport producer
Guess you couldn't read the disclaimer through you tin foil lenses
- zdan, CNN iReport producer
Guess you couldn't read the disclaimer through you tin foil lenses
And you "guys" always say that which isn't true, a distorted reality to support your hatred.
"Libya's particular form of socialism does provide free education, healthcare and subsidised housing and transport, but wages are extremely low and the wealth of the state and profits from foreign investments have only benefited a narrow elite."
Gaddafi's quixotic and brutal rule - BBC News
This here is the problem, you cannot support your views if your life depended on it, your research undoubtedly is narrow to fringe sites like globalresearch, the fringe lefts washing machine. You probably don't even bother to cross check their facts.You don't do this because your mind is made up, you don't want to know the truth, everybody believes what they want to believe.
I've been to both countries and have had extensive conversations with many people from many Arab nations, I don't need to do any research.
While US intervention isn't always warranted, to suggest a dictatorship is preferable to freedom can only come from a fringe element with extremist views.
I'm sorry but you need new material, the old "war because not trading in USD", "war to steal their oil", "war because doing what they have been told" is getting very old. Predictions of the fall of the USD, the collapse of the US have been going on for at least four decades and none of it ever pans out. This is why the fringe left (You for example) never are taken seriously.
They are going to Ukraine.
That has been known for weeks already.
Canada is on the cusp of finalizing a defence co-operation agreement with Ukraine, and the country's ambassador tells CBC News he's hopeful the Trudeau government will soon allow Canadian companies to export weapons to the embattled nation.
Deepening ties and showing solidarity with the war-weary government in Kyiv is one of the major themes of the next few days as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau departs this afternoon for high-level meetings in eastern Europe.
The defence co-operation deal would allow for more direct Canadian military and defence industrial support for Ukraine.
Fringe left? ROFLMAO! I'm a constitutionalist libertarian. Nice try, thanks for playing, please insert another 50 cents to try again. Lol
I don't care what you call yourself, in my eyes you're part of the loony left, full of blind hatred and zero common sense. You hopped on the socialist programs like white on rice, rejecting the otherwise cesspools these countries really were. You can make a common sense case that the US should not have gone in but to suggest they were better off before because they have free healthcare and education? Yeah you're fringe left,.
cog·ni·tive dis·so·nance
nounPsychology
noun: cognitive dissonance
- the state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, especially as relating to behavioral decisions and attitude change.
Most of the world is blind according to you and filled with groundless hatred. Your perspective is suspect. Name one just war the USA has started, just one. There aren't any. Every oportunity to bomb and invade the weak for plunder has been taken these last seventy-five years. That particular period of history is over for ever.
Call me what you like. Your opinion doesn't matter to me. These countries were better off before the imperialistic aggression of the the USA destroyed their infrastructure and economy. It was never about freedom or dictators....it was about control of resources and maintaining the petro-dollar. I know the truth hurts sometimes but you'll just have to learn to live with it.